the jury is out on sandy and the recovery. the governor of new jersey is in a fight with the mayor of atlantic city right now over whether he forced enough people to evacuate pushing people around and forcing people to do things is not the way to recover from a disaster. there is a lot of literature, including interesting stuff by a leftist writer, about voluntary communities and the way they come together in the face of disaster. that is what gets things going we had a horrible disaster in new orleans and brownie deserved all the blame he got. but part of the problem is that we should not be relying on the government to take care of us, even in these terrible disaster situations. there is going to be a situation where you need more brute force. and only -- brute force is the one thing that government is good at. but those tend to happen in the headlines more than they have been in the individual level. people need to, first of all, be discouraged from building houses in hurricane zones. we do not need to get too deep into tha